Antifascist Forum will receive 300 legislators in Caracas

Caracas is preparing to host the Antifascist World Parliamentary Forum, an event that will take place on November 4 and 5 and will receive more than 300 legislators, to debate “the forms of domination and aggression” of “colonialism, neocolonialism, fascism and extermination,” the state channel Venezolana de Televisión (VTV) reported on Sunday.

Through a press release, VTV detailed that the forum – organized by Parliament, controlled by Chavismo – will address issues such as the “relationship between imperialism, fascism and Zionism”, as well as “blockades and coercive measures imposed on several countries” and the “defense of human rights”, among others.

The Venezuelan Foreign Ministry stated, through a video on Instagram, that “everything is ready to receive deputies from the five continents,” while Parliament confirmed, through X, the arrival of the delegations to the country. from Panama, Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia.

The government is preparing this activity when the country is going through a political crisis after the presidential elections of July 28, the official result of which gave the re-election to Nicolás Maduro, a victory questioned by much of the international community and rejected by the largest opposition coalition, the Unitary Platform. Democratic Party (PUD), which the ruling party calls “fascist.”

Besides, the PUD denounces “fraud” and insists that the winner of the elections was its candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, who is in exile in Spain considering that he was suffering political and judicial persecution after the elections.

Last September, Venezuela hosted a world congress against fascism, neo-fascism and “similar expressions,” which was organized by the Maduro government to strengthen “the global fight” against this “threat,” the country’s authorities said at the time.